[RichBrooks]

I completely agree that these opportunities are fantastic for our youth programs and not participating only hurts your school. I know there are lots of people who don't participate because they play in a conf, but to me winning a state championship should be the goal of every team.

I agree that the small schools cant neccessarily compete with the large schools. But also to that point there are always going to be bigger schools and smaller schools. I think 2 divisions is the right set up. yes, it makes it harder for your really small division 3 schools to compete but it gives the middle of the pack teams or the smallest division 2 teams a more even playing field. I am by no means trying to diminish the great things the association has done. I am just giving my opinion on what would take it forward.
When all members for the year are received the guys running it should sit down and divide that by 2. Whatever that number is would determine who is division 1 and 2 for that year. if for example we had 100 schools join. Then the top 50 schools by enrollment would be divison 1 and the other 50 division 2. Then determine by this number how many playoff spots we wanted. 24 for example would allow for 6 teams in each region with two teams per region receiving a bye. I know geography comes into play but now there should be a rough enough amount of data to determine about which schools are going to join each year and the regions could be drawn in order for there to be reasonable distances for all teams. Of course there will be special cases where neutral sites could be used. and if this was a huge issue you could do 8 regions or districts and let the closest two district/regions from each area play against each other at a neutral site. No model will ever be perfect but I think this could possibly work. But I'm open to criticisms as well. I think it would just make each division more competitive.